One way to make sure that your customers can move easily within any album is to utilize sub albums. Let’s use the example of a wedding shoot. Instead of creating one album and dumping all 1200 images into one spot, you might want to think about making your customer’s experience a bit smoother by creating sub albums.

For example, an event titled “Johnson Wedding” may contain sub albums titled “Pre-Ceremony,” “Ceremony,” “Posed Groups,” “Reception,” and so on. This accomplishes two things: first, it helps your customer select the exact shots they want to look at, and second, it keeps the load time to a minimum each time a new album displays as thumbnails. Loading 1200 images as thumbnails is going to take a lot longer than loading 250 images in a sub album.

One last piece of advice: create your albums in advance and then point your uploads to the appropriate sub albums. That way you do not need to shuffle images once they are loaded.

When you upload your images, make sure to point them into your pre-made sub albums. Once the uploads are finished, you are ready to roll.

By: Lifepics

*Note: If you liked this, check out our .pdf guide for “Image Management”

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